Jennifer is the most common first name among Asian-American women; Hong and Phuong are the only in the top 25 that are Asian-majority.
Among men, Kevin stands out as over-represented, while Mohammad and Muhammad are the only Asian-majority names in the top 25.
Blog post with interactive versions, more charts, full sortable table, and links to other racial groups from 2020 Census: https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names
by aar0nbecker
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source: [2020 Census first and last name data, US Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/2020-census-names-data.html)
tools: these are static screenshots of interactive charts built with d3 (drawing), Svelte (interactivity) and SvelteKit (loading/scaffolding).
I have a series of posts covering each of the 6 racial/ethnic groups in the census data, e.g. [https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names](https://nameplay.org/blog/asian-nhpi-american-names), with additional charts and sortable/filterable tables.
When I was a kid I thought Kevin was a spanish name because there was one guy in my grade named Kevin and he was Hispanic